Plaque imaging: Clinical implications and use of invasive methods

Journal of Applied Biomedicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-14

  Tůma, Stanislav ^a   Tesaǐ, David ^b   Veselka, Josef ^c   Neuwirth, Jiří ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MOTOL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Atherosclerotic plaque; Dual source mutidetector row CT; FDG PET CT Intravascular ultrasound; Three dimensional rotational angiography; Virtual history

Indexed keywords

ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY WALL; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DENSITOMETRY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; GOLD STANDARD; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THROMBOSIS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 45249104621     PISSN: 1214021X     EISSN: 12140287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.32725/jab.2008.001     Document Type: Review

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